Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-03-26
C. N. GCGUIRE,
Sheriff OF Phillips County
Proclamation Tor a Special Election

In Prairie View township, in Phillips
county, Kansas, in the matter of The
Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway
Company.
To the qualified voters of Prairie View
township in Phillips county, Kansas.
WHEREAS, on the 10th day of March,
1887, there was presented to the Board
of County Commissioners of said cOun-
ty, in special session duly convened, a
petition signed by more than two-fiths
of the resident tax payers OF said town
ship praying said board of Commission
ers to submit 70 the qualified voters OF
said township a proposition to subscribe
to one hundred and fifty shares of one
| hundred dollars each of the capital
stock Of The Chicago, Kansas and Ne
0raska Railway Company and in pay
ment therefor, to issue to said Railway
Company fifteen of the bonds of said
township of the denomination Of one
thousand dollars each. all on the terms
and conditions set forth in said petition,
which petition, emitting the signatures
of the signers thereof, IS IN words and
figures as follows tO-Wit:
PETITION.
To the Honorable Board of County
Commissioners Of the County of Phil
lips, in the State Of Kansas.
We, the undersigned, your petition
ers, each being a re ,ident tax payer of
the township of Prairie View, IL Phil
/ lips county in the state Of Kansas, re-
/ specially petition your honorable body
TO submit TO the qualified electors Of
said township for their acceptance OF
rejection, at a special election to be or
dered by your honorable body, under
and in pursuance OF the laws Of the state
Z lie Il. A.
Act TO enable Counties, Townships and
Cities to aid in the construction of rail-
roads, and to repeal section eight. OF
chapter thirty-nine, of the laws of 1874,
approved February 25th, 1876. and the
amendments theretOs the following prop
osition with the terms and conditions
herein specified, to-wit:
Shall the said township of Prairie
View, in Phillips county in the state OF
Kansas, subscribe for one hundred and
fifty shares OF one hundred dollars each,
of the capital stock of The Chicago,
Kansas and Nebraska Railway COmpa-
ny, and in payment therefor to issue to
said Railway Company fifteen OF the
bonds Of said township of The denomi-
nation Of one Thousand dollars each, or
50 many thereof mot exceeding said
nUmb er) as shall amount TO not ex-
ceeQlng Tour thousand uOIGr5 per mile
for each mile of railroad constructed III
said township by said Railway Compa-
NY said bonds to be payable to the
bearer at the Fiscal Agency Of the state
of Kansas, in New York City, twenty
years after the date thereof, bearing in
terest at the rate of six per cent. per
annum, interest payable semi-annually,
for which interest coupons shall be at
tached. payable at the fiscal agency
aforesaid; this subscription of stock and
issue of bonds being upon the following
conditions, namely.
As soon as said proposition shall be
determined in the Affirmative by a can
vass Of the votes cast at such electiOns
the Board OF County Commissioners Of
said county Of Phillips for and on be-
half of said township shall order the
County Clerk 10 make, ard the County